On Fri, 2012-02-17 at 15:14 +0100, Gregor Horvath wrote:
> Am Fri, 17 Feb 2012 11:12:52 +0100
> schrieb Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly(a)intel.com>:
>
> > On Tue, 2012-02-14 at 15:57 +0100, Patrick Ohly wrote:
> > > But as Radicale is an example where multiple databases are possible
> > > (in
> > > contrast to Google), it's worth spelling out explicitly how such a
> > > config can be created:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > William, did this work?
> >
> > Perhaps you (or someone else) has the time to turn the instructions
> > into a proper HOWTO? I created a place holder Wiki page for it here:
> > http://syncevolution.org/wiki/synchronizing-radicale
> >
> >
William sent me some debug logs, but then ran out of time. So I've
installed Radicale myself and found an issue that'll break
SyncEvolution: items reported by the server include double slashes in
the path.
<multistatus xmlns="DAV:" xmlns:C="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:caldav">
<response>
<href>/public_user/calendar/calendar_1//1234567890(a)dummy.ics</href>
^^
SyncEvolution will then use /1234567890(a)dummy.ics as path in future
requests, which Radicale rejects with either 404 or 401 errors.
I'll work around that in SyncEvolution. I'm not sure whether there is a
solution with 1.2.2.
Have you considered Calypso (http://keithp.com/blogs/calypso/)? I don't
know yet whether it works with SyncEvolution; if there is interest, then
I will try it.
> I am trying to do the same thing (with one calender to start with)
> N900 <-> radicale but it did not work, because it seems the Maemo
> calendar is not found:
>
> http://pastebin.com/huMXDsEx
>
> What I am doing wrong?
You have additional spaces after your \ character. The slash must be at
the end of each line.
--
Best Regards, Patrick Ohly
The content of this message is my personal opinion only and although
I am an employee of Intel, the statements I make here in no way
represent Intel's position on the issue, nor am I authorized to speak
on behalf of Intel on this matter.

Hello,
I'm running Syncevolution 1.3.2 under Linux Mint Debian along with
Evolution v. 3.4.4-3.
I'd like to upgrade Evolution to v. 3.8 (namely 3.8.5-2 from Debian
Sid). I have access to another Debian PC with this version of Evolution
which corrects some bugs.
I tried to install Syncevolution (from stable ppa) on this PC. To my
surprise, Synaptic offered me to... uninstall Evolution, no less!
How could I get Syncevolution yo work with Evolution 3.8?
TIA - best regards,
--
Daniel CLEMENT

Hello!
So far, syncevolution.org binaries were compiled on Ubuntu Lucid 10.04
LTS, which made the binaries compatible with pretty much all distros
since then, including Debian Stable. Since then, another Ubuntu LTS
(Precise Pangolin, 12.04) was released and Debian Wheezy became Debian
Stable this weekend.
Does anyone still need SyncEvolution binaries for Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 and
Debian Squeeze?
I'd like to switch to Ubuntu Precise as new baseline distro because then
binaries can use features from glib 3.32.0, more precisely, the revised
multithreading API. Then SyncEvolution can prevent premature client
timeouts when acting as SyncML HTTP server by running long-running local
storage initialization in a background thread.
--
Best Regards, Patrick Ohly
The content of this message is my personal opinion only and although
I am an employee of Intel, the statements I make here in no way
represent Intel's position on the issue, nor am I authorized to speak
on behalf of Intel on this matter.

Hello all!
After almost three months of public beta testing the next major
version of SyncEvolution is ready for release. The pre-releases did
have the desired effect of flushing out bugs not found by nightly
testing alone. Thanks everyone for packaging, downloading and testing
them!
Project status
==============
SyncEvolution synchronizes personal information management (PIM) data
via various protocols (SyncML, CalDAV/CardDAV, ActiveSync). It syncs
contacts, appointments, tasks and memos. It syncs to web services or to
SyncML-capable phones via Bluetooth.
Binaries are available for Linux desktops (using GNOME Evolution, or
KDE's Akonadi), for MeeGo and for Maemo (Nokia N900, N9).
The project moved its bug tracking from bugs.meego.com to
bugs.freedesktop.org. All the old issues were migrated.
Please file new issues here:
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=SyncEvolution
The git repositories were also moved to freedesktop.org:
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/SyncEvolution/
SyncEvolution 1.3
=================
New features are KDE/Akonadi and ActiveSync support, not only in the
source code but also in syncevolution.org binaries. ActiveSync is the
recommended way of synchronizing contacts with Google:
https://syncevolution.org/wiki/google-contacts-activesync
The D-Bus server and local sync were rewritten considerably, to make
the code cleaner and more robust. The CalDAV backend now also supports
tasks and memos. CalDAV and CardDAV can be used in combination with a
SyncML peer ("bridging SyncML and WebDAV"), thus allowing a device
which only supports SyncML to talk to a WebDAV service without any
intermediate storage.
1.3 contains bug fixes that were not backported to 1.2.x, so upgrading
is recommended. For example, SyncEvolution 1.3 is required for
Evolution 3.4, otherwise photos are not exported properly. Support for
Evolution >= 3.6 is in the source code, but not in syncevolution.org
binaries. Further workarounds for recent changes in Google CalDAV and
Funambol One Media were added.
Upgrading from release 1.2.x
----------------------------
The sync format of existing configurations for Mobical (aka Everdroid)
must be updated manually, because the server has encoding problems when
using vCard 3.0 (now the default for Evolution contacts):
syncevolution --configure \
syncFormat=text/x-vcard \
mobical addressbook
The Funambol template explicitly enables usage of the
"refresh-from-server" sync mode to avoid getting throttled with 417
'retry later' errors. The same must be added to existing configs
manually:
syncevolution --configure \
enableRefreshSync=TRUE \
funambol
Upgrading from releases before 1.2
----------------------------------
Old configurations can still be read. But writing, as it happens
during a sync, must migrate the configuration first. Releases >= 1.2
automatically migrates configurations. The old configurations
will still be available (see "syncevolution --print-configs") but must
be renamed manually to use them again under their original names with
older SyncEvolution releases.
Changes 1.2.2 -> 1.3
====================
* ActiveSync: updated to work with latest activesyncd and Google, package binaries
Syncing Google contacts was added to the nightly testing. Syncing
contacts and events with Exchange 2012 was already working. Setup
instructions and known issues are described here:
https://syncevolution.org/wiki/google-contacts-activesync
* phone sync: delete<->delete conflict + phone calendar+todo sync (BMC #23744)
When deleting an item on phone and locally, the next sync failed with
ERROR messages about "object not found". This has several reasons:
- libsynthesis super data store attempts to read items
which may or may not exist (triggers ERROR message)
- it checks for 404 but Evolution backends only return a generic
database error (causes sync to fail)
* phone sync: get phone vendor and model from Device ID profile (BMC #736)
In the past we have relied on the user-modifiable device name to be
the fingerprint for matching a phone to a template which is unreliable.
This release changes this in the cases where the phone supports the
Device ID profile (DIP). If support for DIP is detected, then we
extract the vendor and product ids and attempt to associate them
with a product and vendor name by using a newly added lookup table.
This lookup table has to be maintained manually and depends on
contributions by users to cover more devices. See
http://blixtra.org/blog/2011/09/22/syncevolution-needs-you-or-at-least-yo...
* vCalendar 1.0: fixed recurring all-day event support
vCalendar 1.0 cannot represent all-day events. The workarounds for
mapping iCalendar 2.0 all-day events into vCalendar 1.0 was
incomplete, leading to effects like shifting EXDATEs and end
times.
* Funambol: ignore UID
Funambol's OneMedia sends UID, but not RECURRENCE-ID. That becomes a
problem when multiple events of the same event series are added to a
backend which follows the iCalendar 2.0 standard (CalDAV, EDS, KDE),
because these events all look like the master event, and there can be
only one of those.
SyncEvolution now strips the UID from all events coming from any
Funambol server (regardless of the version). If a future Funambol
server release adds support for both UID and RECURRENCE-ID, then
SyncEvolution will have to be updated to take advantage of the
improved server. Because the RECURRENCE-ID is also getting
stripped (despite not being set at the moment), SyncEvolution should
continue to work as it does now even if the server changes.
It would have been nice to limit this workaround to affected Funambol
server versions, but an inquiry on the Funambol mailing list didn't
get a reply, therefore SyncEvolution is playing it safe and assumes
that all future Funambol releases will have the same problem.
* Funambol: work around PHOTO TYPE=image/jpeg
A combination of Funambol Android and Funambol server recently led to
the Funambol server sending PHOTO data with TYPE=image/jpeg. This is
invalid and caused EDS to reject the photo (Vladimir Elisseev,
"[SyncEvolution] issues with syncing photos").
Work around the problem by only keeping the part of the type after the
last slash, if there is any. For image/jpeg and similar types that
leads to the desired value and does not affect valid values, because
those do not contain a slash
(http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/image/index.html).
* Funambol: avoid slow syncs in refresh from server
libsynthesis has traditionally implemented "refresh-from-server" as
"delete local data" plus "slow" sync. This is more compatible, because
some servers (like Google) do not support "refresh-from-server".
But it has the downside that the server cannot know that the client
won't send any data, and Funambol's OneMedia now only allows one slow
sync before blocking the next one for a certain period of time. This is
done to prevent excessive resource usage by badly behaving clients.
To accomodate both kinds of servers, the new "enableRefreshSync"
sync property can be set set to explicitly allow the usage of
the "refresh-from-server" sync mode. It's off by default. The Funambol
template has it turned on, existing configs must be updated manually
(see upgrading comments below).
* Mobical (aka Everdroid): stopped testing memo syncing
Memos used to work, but now only trigger an unspecific 400 error
on the server side.
* GTK-UI: accept service config with a username again (BMC#23106)
Suppressing configs with empty username had undesired side effects:
modifying configs for direct syncing with a device incorrectly
triggered the same error message, without any means of entering
a username. The faulty check was removed without replacement.
* GTK-UI: added GTK 3 version of UI
When GTK 3 is found during compilation, a GTK 3 version of the
UI is built. The source code of both is different to avoid
excessive use of ifdefs. At the moment, both versions offer
the same features. In the long run, the GTK 3 version will
replace the GTK 2 version.
* command line: added refresh/one-way-from-local/remote (BMC #23537)
The -from-client/server sync modes are confusing because the direction
of the data exchange depends on which side acts as SyncML server or
client.
This release introduces new modes which use -from-local/remote
instead. The statistics and messages also use these variants
now. The old modes are still understood, but are declared as "not
recommended" in the documentation.
* command line: config and source names are optional (BMC #23783)
The need to add "foo" and "bar" pseudo config and source names to the
command line even when all parameters for the operation where
explicitly specified on the command line was confusing.
Now it is possible to invoke item operations without the config and
source name. Names which refer to non-existent configs are still
accepted, as in previous releases. Typos are handled better by
producing a detailed error report which includes (as applicable):
- config doesn't exist
- source doesn't exist or not selected
- backend property not set
Because luids used to be positional arguments after <config> and
<source>, a new --luids keyword is necessary to indicate that the
ensuing parameters are luids and not <config> and <source>.
* command line: introduced --print-databases, supported for CalDAV/CardDAV
Listing databases is now a dedicated operation, instead of being done
whenever syncevolution was invoked without parameters.
Advantages:
- can be combined with property assignments for backends
which do not work without that additional information, for example
CalDAV/CardDAV:
syncevolution --print-databases \
backend=[caldav|carddav] \
syncURL=... \
username=... \
password=...
- can be done for configured sources
* command line: use both stdout and stderr
Traditionally, the "syncevolution" command line tool mixed its
INFO/ERROR/DEBUG messages into the normal stdout. This has the major
drawback that error messages get lost during operations like
syncevolution --export - @default addressbook | grep "John Doe"
Now anything which is not the expected result of the operation is
always sent to stderr. Obviously this includes ERROR messages. INFO
and DEBUG are harder to decide. Because they usually convey meta
information about the running operation, they are also sent to
stderr. The output of running a sync goes to both stdout (summary)
and stderr (progress).
* command line: allow setting empty properties
Due to the way how properties were handled internally, it wasn't
possible to explicitly set a property to its default value. Instead
the property was unset. For example, explicitly setting database= was
not possible.
This is necessary for client-test and ActiveSync, because client-test
needs to know that the testing is expected to run with the default
databases (something which normally is avoided by overwriting empty
database properties).
Now the "is set" state is tracked explicitly in the config storage and
command line property APIs. Unsetting a property via the command line
could be implemented with an explicit command line option, but is not
supported at the moment.
* command line: fixed --export <file name>
When exporting items into a file, the delimiter between items
was missing.
* command line + local sync: fixed erroneous "Comparison impossible" output.
"Comparison impossible" was incorrectly printed after a successful
comparison on the target side of local sync.
* local sync: fix timeout with local sync with libdbus
When using libdbus instead of GIO D-Bus (as done by syncevolution.org
binaries and SyncEvolution on Maemo), local sync may have aborted
after 25 seconds when syncing many items with a D-Bus timeout error:
[ERROR] sending message to child failed: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. Possible ca
Reported by Toke Høiland-Jørgensen for Harmattan. Somehow not encountered
elsewhere.
* synccompare: shorter data dump of PHOTO
A full comparison of the base64 PHOTO data can be very long.
Now some key characteristics of the PHOTO data (number of
characters in base64 encoding, number of bytes in decoded
data, md5sum of decoded data) are printed instead.
That way, unintended changes of the data (different encoding,
different content) should still be found while testing and
added/removed photos are nicely visible in synccompare diffs.
* synccompare: fixed output for byte-identical duplicates
If database dumps contained byte-identical duplicates, they
were treated as a single item on the left side of a comparison.
This caused erroneous "added" entries on the right side.
* secure password storage: usage of GNOME Keyring vs. KDE KWallet configurable
Automatically detecting KDE users is not possible at the
moment. Instead KDE users have to manually set the new "keyring"
global config property to "KDE" (case insensitive) if the
SyncEvolution installation supports both, because GNOME Keyring is the
default to avoid surprises for traditional users. If only KWallet
support is enabled, then this is not necessary.
"GNOME" and "true/false/1/0/yes/no" can also be set. This has the
advantage that keyring usage can be enabled permanently for the
command line in --daemon=no mode; normally keyrings are not used in
that mode because accessing them can bring up UI dialogs.
It also becomes possible to disable keyring usage in syncevo-dbus-server,
something which couldn't be done before.
The --keyring command line option is still supported, as an alias for
"[--sync-property] keyring=<value>". The default value for --keyring
is true, to match the traditional behavior. In contrast to other sync
properties, setting "keyring" does not require an explicit --run
parameter. Again this is done to mirror traditional usage.
* config: improved 'maxlogdirs' documentation
The old explanation made it sound like nothing would get deleted by
default ("If set, ..."). That's not correct, by default only 10
sessions are kept.
Also explain the behavior of deleting intermediate sessions first.
* Evolution: always create databases (PTCOM-113)
Always try to create address book or calendar database, because even
if there is a source there's no guarantee that the actual database
was created already; the original logic for only setting this when
explicitly requesting a new database therefore failed in some cases.
This problem affected users who had never created anything locally
and wanted to use SyncEvolution to migrate their data. Now that
works without having to create dummy entries first.
* Evolution contacts: changed default sync format to vCard 3.0
vCard 3.0 is the better default because it has saner encoding
rules and defines more properties, thus avoiding the need for
non-standard extensions. However, Mobical has problems with
the new default. See upgrade instructions below.
* Evolution: added support for EDS 3.5.x
When compiled against EDS 3.5.x or later, SyncEvolution now uses
the backend code originally written for the EClient API introduced
in EDS 3.2. That code was changed so that it works with the new
include file rules and ESourceRegistry in EDS 3.5.x. Support
for using the EClient API with EDS 3.4 was removed because maintaining
three different flavors of the EDS backend code would be too much
work and not gain much (just the possibility to test the EDSClient
code with 3.4).
At the moment, this is a compile time choice made automatically
by configure. syncevolution.org binaries are compiled against
an older EDS and thus do not work with EDS 3.5.x or later.
EDS 3.5.x handles authentication itself, using a standard system
prompt if necessary. SyncEvolution can no longer provide the password,
and thus the "databaseUser/Password" options have no effect when using
EDS 3.5.x.
* D-Bus server: fixed HTTP presence for recent libdbus
Testing with libdbus 1.6.0 on Debian Testing failed because the lib
changed some behavior: instead of looking up the owner of a certain
bus name immediately, it now does that when invoking a
method. Therefore the check for "have connection" in SyncEvolution
was too simplistic and missed the fact that both were not usable,
causing the server to assume that HTTP was down while in reality it
should have assumed it to be up. This prevented auto-syncing and
manually clicking "Sync" in the GTK UI.
* D-Bus server: made notification verbosity configurable with "notifyLevel"
The new "notifyLevel" per-peer configuration option allows users to
control how many desktop notifications the D-Bus server produces while
executing an automatic sync:
0 - suppress all notifications
1 - show only errors
2 - show information about changes and errors (in practice currently the same as level 3)
3 - show all notifications, including starting a sync (default)
* WebDAV: fixed data corruption issue when uploading item with long UID
In some cases data with a very long UID wasn't handled correctly,
causing the out-going data to be malformed and probably causing a
rejection by the server. The root cause is incorrect string handling.
In releases before 1.2.99.1, only the --import operation of contacts
into CardDAV were affected. In 1.2.99.1, the same code also got used
for calendar items and then could also affect syncing.
* CalDAV: updated Google workarounds
Google started sending empty items (VCALENDAR with no VEVENT inside)
which cannot be removed. SyncEvolution 1.3 ignores such items.
The workaround for a 404 from Google Calendar for a GET (sending a
REPORT request matching the item's UID) was broken: first, processing
the result ended up calling the unset responseEnd boost function
pointer, which caused the request to fail. Second, getting multiple
items wasn't handled (data from all items concatenated together was
used).
That can happen in the somewhat unlike case that some items have a UID
which is a complete superset of the requested UID - not realistic in
real life, but happens during testing.
* Google Calendar: updated URL redirect handling
Google Calendar sometimes returns redirect requests to human-readable
web sites (an "unavailable" page, a login form). This is of course
bogus when the client is an automated CalDAV client.
The "unavailable.html" case was already handled. Made it a bit more
flexible to also catch possible variations of it (additional
parameters, https instead of http).
Added the https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin case. Not sure
whether retrying will help in that case, but there's not much else
that SyncEvolution can do.
* WebDAV: bridge with SyncML
Now a peer accessed via SyncML can read/write data stored in a
CalDAV/CardDAV server directly. This can be used to connect a device
which only supports SyncML to a CalDAV/CardDAV server, or sync data
between a SyncML server and a CalDAV/CardDAV server. See "CalDAV and
CardDAV" in the README for details.
* WebDAV: improved --configure
Added INFO output about checking sources. This helps with WebDAV when
the server cannot be contacted (dead, misconfigured) because otherwise
there would be no indication at all why the --configure operation
seems to hang.
Here is some example output, including aborting:
$ syncevolution --configure --template webdav \
syncURL=http://192.168.1.100:9000/ \
username=foo password=bar retryDuration=2s \
target-config@webdav-temp
[INFO] creating configuration target-config@webdav-temp
[INFO] addressbook: looking for databases...
[INFO] addressbook: no database to synchronize
[INFO] calendar: looking for databases...
[INFO] calendar: no database to synchronize
[INFO] memo: looking for databases...
[INFO] memo: no database to synchronize
[INFO] todo: looking for databases...
[INFO] todo: no database to synchronize
It timed out fairly quickly here because of the retryDuration=2s. That
also gets placed in the resulting config, which is probably not desired.
Aborting the operation is now supported:
$ syncevolution --configure \
--template webdav \
syncURL=http://192.168.1.100:9000/ \
username=foo password=bar \
target-config@webdav-temp
[INFO] creating configuration target-config@webdav-temp
[INFO] addressbook: looking for databases...
^C[INFO] Asking to suspend...
[INFO] Press CTRL-C again quickly (within 2s) to stop immediately (can cause problems in the future!)
^C[INFO] Aborting immediately ...
[ERROR] error code from SyncEvolution aborted on behalf of user (local, status 20017): aborting as requested by user
It would be good to make the CTRL-C handling code aware that it can
abort immediately instead of doing the intermediate "asking to suspend"
step, which only makes sense for sync sessions.
* WebDAV: support tasks and memos (BMC #24893)
The new backend property values "CalDAVTodo" and "CalDAVJournal"
select tasks resp. memos stored in a CalDAV collection. "CalDAV"
continues to select events.
Events, tasks and journals can be mixed in the same resource (=
URL). However, this is less efficient than storing them separately.
A good CalDAV server allows filtering items by type, and SyncEvolution
uses that. However, it was found that Radicale 0.7 ignores this
filtering, which could have led to data loss (SyncEvolution asks for
all VTODOs in preparation for a "delete all items" operation in a
"CalDAVTodo" source, gets also VJOURNALs, then deletes them).
Therefore SyncEvolution plays it safe and downloads the VTODO and
VJOURNAL data to double-check that it is working on the right items.
This causes additional traffic for well-behaving servers; currently
it cannot be turned off.
Tasks are exchanged as vCalendar 1.0 or iCalendar 2.0 VJOURNAL.
Memos are exchanged as VTODO or plain text. The logic for storing
incoming plain text is slightly different compared to the way how
the EDS memo backend did it: instead of copying the first line
from the text into the summary, it is now moved. In other words,
the first line gets stripped. The change is primarily technically
motivated; both approaches have pros and cons.
* WebDAV: improved Radicale support
Radicale > 0.7 will return status 200 for delete requests;
is now treated like 204 by SyncEvolution. 412 'Preconditiona Failed'
when asking to delete an already removed item is treated like
the more common 404 'not found'. Same with 410 'gone' instead
of 404 when trying to read a non-existent item.
* CalDAV/CardDAV sync: improved target side output
Added a "target side of local sync ready" INFO message to introduce
the output which has the target context in the [INFO] tag. The sync report
from the target side now has the target context embedded in brackets
after the "Changes applied during synchronization" header, to avoid
ambiguities.
Sometimes the backend has to resend requests because of temporary
issues. If the problem turned out to be permanent, there was a long
period of time, retryDuration=5 minutes to be precice, in which no
visible progress happened.
Now SyncEvolution's WebDAV backend will print a message like this
before going to sleep until it is time to retry:
[INFO @googlecalendar] operation temporarily (?) failed, going to retry in 5.0s before giving up in 18.4s: PROPFIND: Neon error code 1: 401 Unauthorized
The uncertainty comes from several factors. In this example, the 401
might indicate a permanent problem (wrong credentials), or it could be
Google reporting a temporary authorization problem which is (probably)
meant to slow down the client while it asks the user to re-enter the
password. SyncEvolution only asks for passwords once, so it tries
again with the same password if it was successful with it in the
past. Otherwise it gives up immediately.
Another dubious example are name server lookup errors. They can be
permanent (wrong host name) or temporary (name server
down). SyncEvolution errs on the side of retrying, to avoid
interrupting an operation which still has a chance to continue.
Output from the target side of a local sync was passed through stderr
redirection as chunks of text to the frontends. This had several
drawbacks:
- forwarding only happened when the local sync parent was processing
the output redirection, which (due to limitations of the implementation)
only happens when it needs to print something itself
- debug messages were not forwarded
- message boundaries might have been lost
In particular the new INFO messages are relevant while the sync runs
and need to be shown immediately.
* WebDAV: --status for WebDAV source aborted
The command line --status operation did not complete when applied to a
CalDAV/CardDAV source. Instead it aborted because the operation took a
code path where the backend was not fully initialized.
* file backend: more flexible sync support for memos
The databaseFormat=text/calendar for memos did not support
synchronizing as plain text. When using the new
databaseFormat=text/calendar+plain, vCalendar/iCalendar/plain text
are all valid sync formats; the storage is iCalendar 2.0
VJOURNAL in all cases.
* WebDAV: avoid potential crash during database detection
When a server responds to a PROPFIND for a path with results for some
other path, then SyncEvolution crashed during the search for the
default calendar or address book because of a bug in the code which
was meant to handle that kind of response. Apparently Yahoo Calendar
did that. Now seen again in combination with Radicale 0.6.4.
In general, the code was made more robust to cope with bugs in
Radicale 0.6.4. Later Radicale versions fixed these issues and also
worked with SyncEvolution 1.2.2 without client-side workarounds.
* WebDAV: better path normalization
"syncURL" and "database" properties had to end in a trailing slash,
otherwise items were not found (404 errors). Now the necessary slash
is added automatically.
* Curl transport: support SSLServerCertificates=<path>
When the setting refers to a directory, then CURLOPT_CAINFO doesn't
work (must be a file). Check this and use CURLOPT_CAPATH instead.
Caveat: there are some comments in the API documentation about "NSS
enabled libcurl" which supports a directory in
CURLOPT_CAINFO. Hopefully providing an explicit path in CURLOPT_CAPATH
also works in that configuration.
* code cleanup + rewrite: syncing done in separate process
syncevo-dbus-server now runs syncing in a separate process. Local
sync also uses a second helper process. This makes the D-Bus server
more responsive via D-Bus (no more blocking operations) and
minimizes the effect of bugs in code involved with syncing
(backends, system libraries, etc.).
In the long term this restructuring will also allow more advanced
features, like monitoring local or remote storage for changes.
* SyncEvolution <-> SyncEvolution sync: multiple cycles per session
SyncML only allows one send/receive cycle per session. There are cases
(for example, client side merges data that a dumber server failed to
match correctly) where client and server are still out of sync at
the end of a cycle. When SyncEvolution syncs with another SyncEvolution
instance (locally or remotely), both sides detect that the peer
can continue syncing in the same session and start over automatically
when needed. Previously the user had to start another sync session manually.
To the user this is shown as "number of cycles" in a sync session
in the sync report. "Restart" is the process of entering a new cycle.
The cycles are also visible in the command line output as multiple
INFO lines:
[INFO] eds_contact: starting first time sync from client (peer is server)
[INFO] creating complete data backup of source eds_contact before sync (enabled with dumpData and needed for prin
Local data changes to be applied during synchronization:
*** eds_contact ***
no changes
[INFO] eds_contact: sent 1/1
[INFO] eds_contact: started
[INFO] eds_contact: first time sync done successfully
[INFO] eds_contact: starting normal sync from client (peer is server) <===
[INFO] eds_contact: started <===
[INFO] eds_contact: normal sync done successfully <===
[INFO] creating complete data backup after sync (enabled with dumpData and needed for printChanges)
Synchronization successful.
Changes applied during synchronization:
+---------------|-----------------------|-----------------------|-CON-+
| | LOCAL | REMOTE | FLI |
| Source | NEW | MOD | DEL | ERR | NEW | MOD | DEL | ERR | CTS |
+---------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
| eds_contact | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| refresh-from-local, 2 cycles, 0 KB sent by client, 0 KB received |
^^^^^^^^
| item(s) in database backup: 1 before sync, 1 after it |
+---------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
| start Tue Feb 7 17:07:49 2012, duration 0:03min |
| synchronization completed successfully |
+---------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
* SyncEvolution <-> SyncEvolution sync: negotiate UID support via SyncCap (BMC #22783)
The semantic of UID/RECURRENCE-ID in calendar data is now tracked
per data store involved in a sync. If full iCalendar 2.0 semantic
(= IDs are globally unique) is guaranteed, then pairs are found
based on these IDs. Otherwise pairs must be found by looking at
item attributes.
Previously a hack was used to detect this kind of support (any kind
of SyncEvolution instance was assumed to support it, although some
backends do not).
* engine: add DTSTAMP+LAST-MODIFIED before writing calendar items
When writing calendar items into a backend storage as iCalendar 2.0 or
vCalendar 1.0, they should have DTSTAMP and LAST-MODIFIED values. DTSTAMP
is expected by some CalDAV servers (like Apple). LAST-MODIFIED is usually
added by the storage, but not always.
In the text/plain -> syncevolution -> text/calendar -> Radicale -> EDS
-> syncevolution chain the LAST-MODIFIED was not added by Radicale, which caused
problems for change tracking in an EDS-based SyncEvolution.
Also necessary when importing from a phone using vCalendar without
DTSTAMP directly into CalDAV.
* autotools: ensure that link lines are complete
As mentioned by Tino Keitel on the mailing list, some libs and
executables were only implicitly linked against libraries that they
called directly. This happened to work by chance because these libraries
ended up in the running executable anyway, due to indirect loading.
Now there is a "make installcheck" test for this kind of defect
and the makefiles were updated to avoid it.
One exception is libsmltk, which depends on the caller providing
SySync logging support.
* syncevolution.org packages: fixed D-Bus server autostart in .deb and .rpm packages
syncevo-dbus-server wasn't started automatically as part of a user
session because /etc/xdg/autostart/syncevo-dbus-server.desktop wasn't
included in the packages. This broke auto syncing after a session
restart (required manually starting SyncEvolution).
* syncevolution.org packages: support KDE
The traditional "syncevolution-evolution" package was
replaced with "syncevolution-bundle". A meta "syncevolution-evolution"
package depends on it, to support seamless updates for users who have
"syncevolution-evolution" installed.
Binary dependencies of the main .deb are ignored for backends
because loading them is optional. The new "syncevolution-kde"
package has the right dependencies for KDE/Akonadi, while
"syncevolution-evolution" mostly just lists standard libs
if the "EDS compatibility" mode is used, where libebook/libecal
are loaded dynamically.
Platform specific code (GNOME keyring, KDE wallet) was moved into
loadable, optional modules, to allow installation of the SyncEvolution
bundle without forcing the installation of unused system components.
* D-Bus: use GIO D-Bus instead of libdbus if available
When compiling from source, the more modern GIO D-Bus is used instead
of libdbus if available and recent enough (>= 2.30). syncevolution.org
binaries still use libdbus, to stay compatible with older Linux
distros.
* several minor bug fixes
syncevo-dbus-server now runs under valgrind in the nightly testing,
plus several more test scenarios were added. This helped to find
and fix various minor memory handling issues.
* developers: backend API changes
beginSync/endSync() (aka m_startDataRead/m_endDataWrite) may now be
called multiple times per SyncSource instance life cycle. SyncSources
derived from TrackingSyncSource should work without changes. Use the
Client::Source::*::testChangesMultiCycles test to check whether your
backend supports this correctly.
Reading and deleting must throw a 404 status exception when an item
is not found. The Client::Source::*::*404 tests cover this.
The special semantic of the former RegisterSyncSource::InactiveSource
(invalid pointer of value 1) caused bugs, like using it in
--print-databases (=> segfault) or not being able to store the result
of a createSource() directly in a smart pointer (=> potential leak in
SyncSource::createSource()).
Obviously a bad idea to start with. Replaced with a
RegisterSyncSource::InactiveSource() method which creates a real,
inactive SyncSource instance which can and must be deleted by the
caller.
This is a SyncSource API change for backend developers. Instead of
RegisterSyncSource::InactiveSource, return
RegisterSyncSource::InactiveSource(). Comparisons against
RegisterSyncSource::InactiveSource needs to be replaced with a call
to the new SyncSource::isInactive().
Long-running backend calls are encouraged to check for events on the
main glib context (either in a loop or with
g_main_context_iteration(NULL)) and abort when
SuspendFlags::getSuspendFlags().getState() returns
SuspendFlags::ABORT.
Implementing the improved local sync output required extending the
D-Bus API. The Server.LogOutput signal now has an additional
"process name" parameter. Normally it is empty. For messages
originating from the target side, it carries that extra target
context string.
This D-Bus API change is backward compatible. Older clients can still
subscribe to and decode the LogOutput messages, they'll simply ignore
the extra parameter. Newer clients expecting that extra parameter
won't work with an older D-Bus daemon: they'll fail to decode the
D-Bus message.
* packagers:
libgdbussyncevo is now installed as a normal library in /usr/lib,
even though SyncEvolution is the only user.
pcrecpp is now a new hard dependency.
Changes 1.2.99.4 -> 1.3
=======================
* D-Bus server + GIO D-Bus: shutdown fix
When compiled against GIO D-Bus (not the case in syncevolution.org
binaries), the syncevo-dbus-server occasionally shut down before
sending out all pending D-Bus messages. Showed up only in nightly
testing.
* D-Bus server + GIO D-Bus: fix auto-activation (Debian bug #599247)
When syncevo-dbus-server was started on demand by the D-Bus daemon,
then it registered itself with the daemon before it was ready to
serve requests. Only happened in combination with GIO D-Bus and
thus was not a problem before 1.2.99.x.
One user-visible effect was that the GTK UI did not select the default
service when it was started for the first time, because it could not
retrieve that information from syncevo-dbus-server.
* local sync: fix timeout with local sync with libdbus
When using libdbus instead of GIO D-Bus (as done by syncevolution.org
binaries and SyncEvolution on Maemo), local sync may have aborted
after 25 seconds when syncing many items with a D-Bus timeout error:
[ERROR] sending message to child failed: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. Possible ca
Reported by Toke Høiland-Jørgensen for Harmattan. Somehow not encountered
elsewhere.
* KDE: check for D-Bus to avoid crash in KApplication (BMC #25596)
Some unnamed version of KDE crashes in KApplication when invoked
without a D-Bus session. The reporter ran into this when compiling
from source, because the SyncEvolution binary is invoked as part of
the build process, which ran outside of a D-Bus session.
Avoid the crash by checking for a D-Bus session bus before instantiating
KApplication. Instantiating KApplication was added for KWallet support.
Without D-Bus, KWallet does not work either, therefore throw an explicit
error when the lack of D-Bus is detected.
* Funambol: work around PHOTO TYPE=image/jpeg
A combination of Funambol Android and Funambol server recently led to
the Funambol server sending PHOTO data with TYPE=image/jpeg. This is
invalid and caused EDS to reject the photo (Vladimir Elisseev,
"[SyncEvolution] issues with syncing photos").
Work around the problem by only keeping the part of the type after the
last slash, if there is any. For image/jpeg and similar types that
leads to the desired value and does not affect valid values, because
those do not contain a slash
(http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/image/index.html).
* syncevo-http-server: fixed printing of server debug output
Python failed to call logSyncEvoOutput() after adding the additional
'process' parameter to LogOutput because it extracts all four
parameters and then cannot pass them to logSyncEvoOutput().
Now logSyncEvoOutput() uses the new process information to instantiate
a logger with the right prefix, using 'sync' as fallback for messages
without that information (as before).
* Some minor code and test cleanup.
Source, Installation, Further information
=========================================
http://syncevolution.org/blogs/pohly/2012/syncevolution-13-released
Source code bundles for users are available in
http://downloads.syncevolution.org/syncevolution/sources
and the original source is in the git repositories
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/SyncEvolution/
i386, lpia and amd64 binaries for Debian-based distributions are
available via the "stable" syncevolution.org repository. Add the
following entry to your /apt/source.list:
deb http://downloads.syncevolution.org/apt stable main
Then install "syncevolution-evolution", "syncevolution-kde" and/or
"syncevolution-activesync".
These binaries include the "sync-ui" GTK GUI and were compiled for
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy), except for "syncevolution-activesync" which
depends on libraries in Debian Squeeze, for example EDS 3.4.
Older distributions like Debian 4.0 (Etch) can no longer be supported
with precompiled binaries because of missing libraries, but the source
still compiles when not enabling the GUI (the default).
The same binaries are also available as .tar.gz and .rpm archives in
http://downloads.syncevolution.org/syncevolution/. In contrast
to 0.8.x archives, the 1.x .tar.gz archives have to be unpacked and the
content must be moved to /usr, because several files would not be found
otherwise.
After installation, follow the
http://syncevolution.org/documentation/getting-started steps.
--
Patrick Ohly, on behalf of everyone who has helped
to make SyncEvolution possible:
http://syncevolution.org/about/contributors

Hi,
Everytime there's an dist-upgrade on ubuntu I seem to have problems with
syncevolution. This time it seems to work ok until it outputs the
following lines:
"""
[INFO] sync: /org/syncevolution/Session/12397595441382995192:
[ERROR] sync: /org/syncevolution/Session/12397595441382995192: error
code from SyncEvolution external transport failure (local, status
20043): sync failed
"""
Any help is welcome!
Thanks,
Stephan

On Thu, 2013-10-17 at 11:20 +0600, Ildar Mulyukov wrote:
> 16.10.2013 18:21, Patrick Ohly пишет:
> > Can you try working around this by replacing "keys[i]" with "keys.at(i)"
> > in the surrounding code of EvolutionSyncSource.cpp?
>
> Yes! it worked. Thanks a lot!
>
> > I must have had problems like that myself when writing the code, because
> > the commit message for PlainGStrArray says:
> >
> > glib: smart pointer for glib string arrays
> >
> > Automatically calls g_strfreev(). Accessing entries in the array must
> > be done with at(), overloading the [] operator led to a "operator
> > ambiguous" warning from gcc on Debian Stable in x86.
> >
> > But I did not document why overloading was necessary and don't remember
> > or see that now. EvolutionSyncSource.cpp ended up using the [] operator
> > in that one line you are stumbling over now and not the others, which is
> > a bit puzzling.
>
> Yeah, hard to answer..
For the the record, the following two commits are on their way into
master to address the problem:
commit 1260a702f4210f81a8246be0e80d98219f3bfdcd
Author: Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly(a)intel.com>
Date: Fri Oct 18 09:55:44 2013 +0200
glib: prevent accidental usage of PlainGStrArray []
The array operator happens to work on some platforms, but not others
(see previous commit). Make it private without an implementation to
catch the undesired usage of it on platforms whether the code would
happen to work otherwise.
commit dd61308c67d3d923113cea5c32d2bccff7e46aa7
Author: Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly(a)intel.com>
Date: Fri Oct 18 09:50:18 2013 +0200
EDS: fix compile problem with boost and EDS > 3.36
This fixes the following problem, seen with Boost 1.53.0 on altlinux
when compiling for EDS >= 3.6:
/usr/include/boost/smart_ptr/shared_ptr.hpp: In instantiation of 'typename boost::detail::sp_array_access<T>::typ
src/backends/evolution/EvolutionSyncSource.cpp:163:38: required from here
/usr/include/boost/smart_ptr/shared_ptr.hpp:663:22: error: return-statement with a value, in function returning '
make[2]: *** [src/backends/evolution/src_backends_evolution_syncecal_la-EvolutionSyncSource.lo]
The "void" type above is wrong, so it looks like a missing type trait
for the pointer type used in the smart_ptr. PlainGStrArray already had
an at() method to work around such issues, so use it. Not sure why this
one usage of [] slipped through.
--
Best Regards, Patrick Ohly
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I am an employee of Intel, the statements I make here in no way
represent Intel's position on the issue, nor am I authorized to speak
on behalf of Intel on this matter.

Google carddav stopped working, but there was no announcement.
The only reference I could find was this thread:
https://inverse.ca/sogo/lists/arc/users/2013-04/msg00008.html
I used to connect with this configuration:
--CODE--
syncevolution --keyring=no --configure \
username=<user>@gmail.com \
password=<password> \
addressbook/backend=carddav \
addressbook/database=https://google.com/m8/carddav/principals/__uids__/de...
\
target-config@webdav \
addressbook
--/CODE--
It fails with:
--OUTPUT--
[INFO] addressbook: backend failed: error code from SyncEvolution object
not found (remote, status 404): PROPFIND: Neon error code 1: 404 Not
Found
[ERROR] error code from SyncEvolution object not found (remote, status
404): PROPFIND: Neon error code 1: 404 Not Found
--/OUTPUT--
Lack of complains indicates that iPod/Pad/Phone and windows[78] phone
sync still works.
So it might be true that google started whitelisting the server.
Can anyone confirm this?
Is anybody working on a google-api for syncevolution?

Hi,
Google made caldav & carddav api public again ( http://goo.gl/8i81d ) &
changed their calendar api-end point from
" https://www.google.com/calendar/dav/<CALID>/events"
to
" https://apidata.googleusercontent.com/caldav/v2/<CALID>/events".
But new api-end point doesn't work with basic http authentication. And
old end-point will stop working after 16 September, 2013.
I tried with following command:
SYNCEVOLUTION_DEBUG=1 syncevolution --print-items --daemon=no \
loglevel=4 \
username=myusername(a)gmail.com \
password=***** \
database=https://apidata.googleusercontent.com:443/caldav/v2/GOOGLECALENDARID@group.calendar.google.com/events/ \
backend=caldav
It failed with " HTTP 401 Unauthorized" response code as mentioned in
google-developer page.
Here is the log ( http://paste.ubuntu.com/5862621/ ).
I am currently documenting a Ubuntu-wiki for syncevolution
( https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SyncEvolution) &
calendar-synchronisation
method documented there will not work after 16 sept.
Hence the obvious question: Will next release of Syncevolution support
Google-Auth?
Thank You.